Staff (music), the Glossary
In Western musical notation, the staff: "in British English: also called: stave; plural: staffs or staves" (UK also stave; plural: staffs or staves), also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.[1]
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48 relations: Accidental (music), Alto, American English, Back-formation, Bar (music), Bass (voice type), British English, C (musical note), Clef, Daseian notation, Diatonic scale, Duration (music), Graph of a function, Guido of Arezzo, Harp, Hymnal, Interval (music), Key signature, Keyboard instrument, Ledger line, Liber Usualis, Musica enchiriadis, Musical notation, Musical note, Neume, Organ (music), Oxford University Press, PDF, Pedal keyboard, Percussion instrument, Percussion notation, Piano, Pitch (music), PostScript, Rastrum, SATB, Semitone, Sight-reading, Soprano, Steps and skips, Tablature, Tempo, Tenor, The Musical Quarterly, Time signature, Transposing instrument, Ugolino of Forlì, Western culture.
Accidental (music)
In musical notation, an accidental is a symbol that indicates an alteration of a given pitch. Staff (music) and accidental (music) are musical notation.
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Alto
The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: altus), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range.
American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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Back-formation
In etymology, back-formation is the process or result of creating a new word via inflection, typically by removing or substituting actual or supposed affixes from a lexical item, in a way that expands the number of lexemes associated with the corresponding root word.
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Bar (music)
In musical notation, a bar (or measure) is a segment of music bounded by vertical lines, known as bar lines (or barlines), usually indicating one of more recurring beats. The length of the bar, measured by the number of note values it contains, is normally indicated by the time signature. Staff (music) and bar (music) are musical notation.
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Bass (voice type)
A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types.
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British English
British English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain.
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C (musical note)
C or Do is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale (the relative minor of C major), and the fourth note (G, A, B, C) of the Guidonian hand, commonly pitched around 261.63 Hz.
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Clef
A clef (from French: clef 'key') is a musical symbol used to indicate which notes are represented by the lines and spaces on a musical staff. Staff (music) and clef are musical notation.
Daseian notation
''Tu patris sempiternus es filius'', written in Daseian notation. The Daseian signs are at the far left of the staff. Daseian notation (or dasian notation) is the type of musical notation used in the ninth century anonymous musical treatises Musica enchiriadis and Scolica enchiriadis. Staff (music) and Daseian notation are musical notation.
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Diatonic scale
In music theory, a diatonic scale is any heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps, depending on their position in the scale.
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Duration (music)
In music, duration is an amount of time or how long or short a note, phrase, section, or composition lasts.
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Graph of a function
In mathematics, the graph of a function f is the set of ordered pairs (x, y), where f(x).
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Guido of Arezzo
Guido of Arezzo (Guido d'Arezzo; – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music. Staff (music) and Guido of Arezzo are musical notation.
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Harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.
Hymnal
A hymnal or hymnary is a collection of hymns, usually in the form of a book, called a hymnbook (or hymn book).
Interval (music)
In music theory, an interval is a difference in pitch between two sounds.
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Key signature
In Western musical notation, a key signature is a set of sharp, flat, or rarely, natural symbols placed on the staff at the beginning of a section of music. Staff (music) and key signature are musical notation.
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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.
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Ledger line
A ledger line or leger line is used in Western musical notation to notate pitches above or below the lines and spaces of the regular musical staff. Staff (music) and ledger line are musical notation.
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Liber Usualis
The Liber Usualis (Usual book) is a book of commonly used Gregorian chants in the Catholic tradition, compiled by the monks of the Abbey of Solesmes in France.
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Musica enchiriadis
Musica enchiriadis is an anonymous musical treatise of the 9th century.
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Musical notation
Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music.
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Musical note
In music, notes are distinct and isolatable sounds that act as the most basic building blocks for nearly all of music. Staff (music) and Musical note are musical notation.
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Neume
A neume (sometimes spelled neum) is the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation. Staff (music) and neume are musical notation.
Organ (music)
Carol Williams performing at the United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel. In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
Pedal keyboard
A pedalboard (also called a pedal keyboard, pedal clavier, or, with electronic instruments, a bass pedalboard) is a keyboard played with the feet that is usually used to produce the low-pitched bass line of a piece of music.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.
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Percussion notation
Percussion notation is a type of musical notation indicating notes to be played by percussion instruments. Staff (music) and percussion notation are musical notation.
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Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.
Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
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PostScript
PostScript (often abbreviated as PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language.
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Rastrum
A rastrum or raster is a five-pointed writing implement used in music manuscripts to draw parallel staff lines when drawn horizontally across a blank piece of sheet music. Staff (music) and rastrum are musical notation.
SATB
SATB is an initialism that describes the scoring of compositions for choirs or consorts of instruments.
Semitone
A semitone, also called a minor second, half step, or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.
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Sight-reading
In music, sight-reading, also called a prima vista (Italian meaning "at first sight"), is the practice of reading and performing of a piece in a music notation that the performer has not seen or learned before. Staff (music) and sight-reading are musical notation.
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Soprano
A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.
Steps and skips
In music, a step, or conjunct motion,Bonds, Mark Evan (2006).
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Tablature
Tablature (or tab for short) is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering or the location of the played notes rather than musical pitches. Staff (music) and Tablature are musical notation.
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Tempo
In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for 'time'; plural 'tempos', or tempi from the Italian plural), also known as beats per minute, is the speed or pace of a given composition.
Tenor
A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.
The Musical Quarterly
The Musical Quarterly is the oldest academic journal on music in America.
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Time signature
A time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, and measure signature) is a convention in Western music notation that specifies how many note values of a particular type are contained in each measure (bar). Staff (music) and time signature are musical notation.
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Transposing instrument
A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which music notation is not written at concert pitch (concert pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing instrument such as the piano). Staff (music) and transposing instrument are musical notation.
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Ugolino of Forlì
Ugolino of Forlì (Ugolino da Forlì) or Ugolino of Orvieto (Ugolino da Orvieto) was an Italian music theorist and composer of early Renaissance music.
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Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff_(music)
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